Tuesday, July 05, 2016

One is corrupt and the other is dumb.. and also corrupt

There’s been a lot of hype about these damn emails, but Clinton
deserves some criticism. She did not get a clean bill of health here,
and the subject will be a legitimate issue during the campaign.
That doesn’t mean that Donald Trump has handled the controversy with
any deftness. By insisting repeatedly that the investigation was rigged,
he undermined the case he should be making now, which is that the FBI
is credible and should be taken seriously. But, instead, he’s still saying that the investigation was rigged.

That’s basically taking a weak, contentious and conspiratorial case
in place of one that is backed up by the investigators. It’s
particularly stupid because, now that we know that no charges will be
filed, this is an entirely political controversy. And the
object, for Trump, should be to get the maximum possible political
mileage out of it. He could be making the case that Clinton shouldn’t be
trusted to handle the nation’s national security because she did a poor
job of safeguarding its secrets when she served in the Obama
administration, but he’s instead saying that the FBI engaged in a
coverup.

If the Republicans had nominated any other candidate this would be a serious political problem for Hillary. Instead they nominated a dumb clown. And so here we are.